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The Trilobite: The Best Fossils Ever

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With Many, Trilobite, The King In Fossil Hunting.

Just updated! Trilobites are cool looking also are the right size and anyone can look for them. The ones you find you get to keep! How cool is that?  My son is holding this gem.  On his first hunt we found this one. This one is called a Flexicalymene Meeki.

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The Top Five Reasons The Trilobite is the Best Fossils 

  • It will get you outdoors.
  • The fun of the hunt.
  • The whole family can do it together.
  • You will learn new things.
  • There are many types of trilobites to look for.

The Hunt For A Trilobite. With Pictures. 

Location.........Kentucky.............Near the Ohio River.

It was cool out overcast and it was raining.
Along a small creek bank I walked. Looking along a one foot thick layer of the creek bank. This is a layer of harden clay. The clay does soften and flake with time and sun light. Then sometimes gets washed away when the creek water comes up. At times showing a hint of a trilobite. I spot something different along the clay layers. A small bump with some lines on it. I look closer. Yes! There is one. I'm wondering how big this one will be.

Picture of the trilobite before I started. Can you see where it is?

Get To Work! 

Tweezers

Using my tweezers I carefully pull the clay off the trilobite. When you are doing this, make sure you only removing the clay. The trilobite is some what fragile and you can pull a piece of the trilobite off. So be careful. With wet knees and back I stayed at work. With every flake of clay I took off it, it kept getting bigger! The tweezer kept shaking. I made sure that I did not damage the trilobite.

You can see about half of it. The trilobite is on its side.

It Is Out! 

All In One

It took about seven mins. to get the trilobite out of its tomb. In the picture you see its back side and tail. I set it on a rock that has a lot of fossils in it. You can do the same. Go out and have fun!

A Flexicalymene Meeki. It is the common trilobite found around here.

Don't Forget To Look Around 

They maybe right under your feet

If you are finding trilobites in a creek bank there is some laying around. As flood waters or just high water goes through the creek it will wash some of the trilobites out of the bank. And leave them within the rocks along the creek. This picture I have here is one trilobite that I found with the rocks. I took the picture before I picked it up. It was in great shape. At times you will find one that has been weathered because it has been out of the bank for some time. I found this trilobite on a different day than the one above(note this trilobite is dry).

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Trilobites ("three-lobes") are extinct arthropods that form the class Trilobita. They appeared in the Early Cambrian period and flourished throughout the lower Paleozoic era before beginning a drawn-out decline to extinction when, during the Late Devonian extinction, all trilobite orders, with the sole exception of Proetida, died out. The last of the trilobites disappeared in the mass extinction at the end of the Permian about 250 million years ago (m.y.a.).

Trilobites are very well-known, and possibly the second-most famous fossil group, after the dinosaurs. When trilobites appear in the fossil record of the Lower Cambrian they are already highly diverse and geographically dispersed. Because of their diversity and an easily fossilized exoskeleton, they left an extensive fossil record with some 17,000 known species spanning Paleozoic time. Trilobites have been important in biostratigraphy, paleontology, and plate tectonics research. For example, trilobites have been important in estimating the rate of speciation during the period known as the Cambrian Explosion because they are the most diverse group of metazoans known from the fossil record of the early Cambrian, and are readily distinguishable because of complex and well preserved morphologies. The trilobites are often placed within the arthropod subphylum Schizoramia within the superclass Arachnomorpha (equivalent to the Arachnata), although several alternative taxonomies are found in the literature.

Different trilobites made their living in different ways. Some led a benthic life as predators, scavengers or filter feeders. Some swam (a pelagic lifestyle) and fed on plankton. Most life styles expected of modern marine arthropods are seen, except for parasitism.

Some trilobites (particularly the family Olenida) are even thought to have evolved a symbiotic relationship with sulfur-eating bacteria from which they derived food.

There are unknown trilobites out there, but make yourself known here! 

Just a line or two or more if you will.

confetta

I LOVE Trilobites! I have a REALLY COOL ONE! : ) Had NEVER SEEN these Vids!!

I AM NOT ALONE!

Posted July 23, 2008

confetta

I LOVE Trilobites! I have a REALLY COOL ONE! : ) Had NEVER SEEN these Vids!!

I AM NOT ALONE!

Posted July 23, 2008

crystalguy

Nice site and lots of good contacts for info on trilobites. I have always been fascinated by these critters

Posted June 07, 2008

bjslapidary

Great lens. We love fossils...

Posted March 28, 2008

LeslieBrenner

Great lens, 5 stars. So that's where you find trilobites. Wonder if it's possible to find trilobites in Manhattan? [Mine came from a store. Oh well.]

Posted March 15, 2008

 
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Pictures from some freinds at webshots.com 

Do you like them? They most likely will not be fossils.

Go to webshots.com and search for trilobites.

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